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1. Add confidence score for ER_SUCCESS_MATCH

   If you could include a scoring (percent) in ERSUCCESSMATCH for synonyms it would be very helpful to either guide the dialog to get more information, or make a best effort attempt for the end point to fill in the blanks.

   This would allow us to make our endpoints trainable based on user feedback.

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2. The ability to turn on/off an Echo alarm with a smart home sensor or switch.

   It would be useful to allow smart home partners like Smartthings to turn off an alarm set on an Echo. For instance; if a motion sensor detects motion then turn off alarm so no voice control is necessary.

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3. Make it easier to repeat entries on the Alexa Simulator

   It would be good on the Test Alexa Simulator to be able to click on previous utterances to repeat them

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4. Allow users to apply to Beta test skills

   Currently when enabling Beta testing for a skill, it is necessary to add the email addresses of the beta testers. They will then receive an invite, which will allow them to test the skill. The invite URL is not usable by anybody who has not been added to the list. It would be nice to be able to allow users to apply to be testers have with options for this to either be on an approval basis or open. This would then make it a lot easier to manage testers as it would not be necessary for us to obtain their email addresses.

   Currently when enabling Beta testing for a skill, it is necessary to add the email addresses of the beta testers. They will then receive an invite, which will allow them to test the skill. The invite URL is not usable by anybody who has not been added to the list. It would be nice to be able to allow users to apply to be testers have with options for this to either be on an approval basis or open. This would then make it a lot easier to manage testers as it would not be necessary for us to obtain… more

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5. let skills send text notifications to the alexa app for users who have opted in

   Similar to the mobile app store - let skills send updates on the alexa app to users who have enabled the skill and agreed to receive notifications from that skill. Would help so much with feature updates and retention and imo is not very intrusive. users can always opt out.

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6. Auto duck support in APLA Mixer

   Auto duck is a popular feature in audio mixing software like Audacity; it allows a track (A) to play at a desired volume while there is silence on another track (B). Whenever track B is NOT silent, track A automatically reduces its volume, allowing track B to be heard clearly, and both tracks to continue uninterrupted. A automatically returns to its default volume when B is silent once again, and so on for the duration of the track(s).

   Example:

   Track A: background music
   Track B: voiceover (VO) track - spoken phrases separated by variable-length periods of silence.
   This use case is common in meditation / relaxation skills, and games.
   When there is speech on track B, the music volume (track A) reduces automatically to allow the voiceover on B to be heard clearly. Between spoken phrases, B is silent and the music volume (track A) returns to its default level.

   Adding support for this in APLA would enable a much richer audio experience in many types of skill, including games, quizzes, education and relaxing sounds. One approach would be to add an an AutoDuck filter, applicable to items supported by the Mixer component.

   {
     "type": "Audio",
     "source": "${payload.backgroundMusicUrl}",
     "filter": [
       {
         "type": "AutoDuck",
         "amount": 0.1
       }
     ]
   }
   

   Without this feature, ducking cannot be achieved natively by developers. They can only approximate the effect using pre-recorded audio, which makes it hard (impossible?) to mix a music track selected at runtime based on skill state, with spoken content pulled from a database.

   Auto duck is a popular feature in audio mixing software like Audacity; it allows a track (A) to play at a desired volume while there is silence on another track (B). Whenever track B is NOT silent, track A automatically reduces its volume, allowing track B to be heard clearly, and both tracks to continue uninterrupted. A automatically returns to its default volume when B is silent once again, and so on for the duration of the track(s).

   Example:

   Track A: background music
   Track B: voiceover (VO) track - spoken phrases separated by variable-length periods of silence.
   This use case… more

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7. Allow skill developers access to the Flex Motion sensor

   Currently you can not create a skill that can be triggered by activity detected by the motion sensor add-on the Amazon Flex supports. Please add this capability and then provide hooks in the AWS SDK to support it.

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8. Concatenate Alexa commands using reserved key/words like 'AND THEN'

   Immagine you need to shut down the bedroom light AND THEN turn on the TV AND THEN rise up the volume ETC...

   Right now you have to say:
   Alexa... shut down the bedroom light... wait... OK....
   Alexa... turn on the TV ... wait... OK....
   Alexa... rise up the volume on the TV ... wait... OK...

   It would be wonderful to be able to concatenate Alexa actions, using some custom words like: COMMAND0 ['AND THEN' COMMAND1] ...['AND THEN' COMMAND_N]

   The word should be unique and it's higly suggested to be considered a RESERVED key which developer might not use inside theirs skills.

   Immagine you need to shut down the bedroom light AND THEN turn on the TV AND THEN rise up the volume ETC...

   Right now you have to say:
   Alexa... shut down the bedroom light... wait... OK....
   Alexa... turn on the TV ... wait... OK....
   Alexa... rise up the volume on the TV ... wait... OK...

   It would be wonderful to be able to concatenate Alexa actions, using some custom words like: COMMAND0 ['AND THEN' COMMAND1] ...['AND THEN' COMMAND_N]

   The word should be unique and it's higly suggested to be considered a RESERVED key which developer might not use… more

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9. Extend Weather Proactive Event Schema

   Extend weather schemas to general local/civil warnings.

   Currently there are only some weather events for tornado, hurricane, snow sturm and thunder storm.

   But there are more (general) types that should be selectable. Like earthquake, terrorist attack, avalanche, flood, chemical accident and many more civil warnings.

   I think the weather alert should be convert to a local alert or something like this.

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10. Replacement for AMAZON.LITERAL

    Since AMAZON.LITERAL is discontinued and developers are encouraged to use AMAZON.SearchQuery or Slot values to handle the data.

    We have a requirement for building skill with parsing the entire spoken text as token to the API for further business processing.

    Tried with Amazon.SearchQuery (fails when no matching utterance found) and Fallback intent (only failed mapping from Slots are returned) with no luck.

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11. Add custom Lambda function configuration support with ASK CLI

    ASK CLI just deploys Lambda functions using a standard default configuration. In order to change these settings, you have to go in the Lambda function that was created and customize its configuration to your needs, causing a revision id mismatch and ultimately requiring to force deploy the subsequent skill update.

    Would it possible to add custom Lambda function configuration settings, such as the basic settings (memory, timeout & description), role execution policy and environment variables, to the ask configuration file, potentially using part of the AWS CLI Lambda create function JSON skeleton object?

    {
    "FunctionName": "<functionName>",
    "Runtime": "nodejs8.10",
    "Role": "<role>",
    "Handler": "index.js",
    "Description": "<description>",
    "Timeout": <timeout>,
    "MemorySize": <memorySize>,
    "Environment": {
    "Variables": {
    "<key1>": "<value1>",
    ...
    }
    }
    }

    ASK CLI just deploys Lambda functions using a standard default configuration. In order to change these settings, you have to go in the Lambda function that was created and customize its configuration to your needs, causing a revision id mismatch and ultimately requiring to force deploy the subsequent skill update.

    Would it possible to add custom Lambda function configuration settings, such as the basic settings (memory, timeout & description), role execution policy and environment variables, to the ask configuration file, potentially using part of the AWS CLI Lambda create function JSON skeleton object?

    {
    "FunctionName": "<functionName>",
    "Runtime": "nodejs8.10",
    "Role": "<role>",… more

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12. Add multi-value and negative-value slots

    Let's say my user is ordering a burger:
    user: "I want a cheeseburger"
    alexa: "Alright. What toppings would you like?"
    user: "mayo, pickles and no onions"

    In this scenario I've got to create some number of custom topping slots. {topping1} {topping2} etc.. and then every iteration of sample utterances up to however many toppings might possibly exist on a burger.

    There has to be a better way. I don't want to ask the user for toppings one at a time until they say "no more, please". Collecting multiple values to the same slot would fix this.

    Next, in the same example, the user said "no onions". Granted, the skill asked what toppings they want, but it's fairly natural to emphasize what you don't want when answering this kind of question. Unfortunately, the skill simply collects onions as a topping. The ability to recognize a negative would fix this.

    /beg

    Let's say my user is ordering a burger:
    user: "I want a cheeseburger"
    alexa: "Alright. What toppings would you like?"
    user: "mayo, pickles and no onions"

    In this scenario I've got to create some number of custom topping slots. {topping1} {topping2} etc.. and then every iteration of sample utterances up to however many toppings might possibly exist on a burger.

    There has to be a better way. I don't want to ask the user for toppings one at a time until they say "no more, please". Collecting multiple values to the same slot would fix this.

    Next, in the same… more

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13. Worldwide Monetization of Alexa Skills

    If you want to attract talent from anywhere in the world, you need to make the revenue possible anywhere in the world as well, as the viral interaction of that culture leads to the spreading of Alexa to other cultures around the world.

    This feels like a handicap and a reason to develop for the competition.

    We came up with 2 x creative ideas to monetize our Skill, only to be told of Alexa's limitations.

    1. Add a Amazon Kindle book to the users cart within the Skill. The Skill is not supporting the retail flow of Amazon products. Which should be seamless.

    2. Our In-Skill Purchase idea is only available to US users only. WHY? Massive limitation. I see a massive drop in sales here because my Skill is worldwide applicable. That means Amazon is also missing out on Worldwide sales.

    If you want to attract talent from anywhere in the world, you need to make the revenue possible anywhere in the world as well, as the viral interaction of that culture leads to the spreading of Alexa to other cultures around the world.

    This feels like a handicap and a reason to develop for the competition.

    We came up with 2 x creative ideas to monetize our Skill, only to be told of Alexa's limitations.

    1. Add a Amazon Kindle book to the users cart within the Skill. The Skill is not supporting the retail flow of Amazon products. Which should… more

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14. Implement Proactive Events without ASK-CLI

    At the moment ASK-CLI can only be implemented using your CLI, but as I do not use it at all it'd be really cool if you could add a possibility to activate Procative Events using only web interface.

    I personally think all features should be accessible from the web even before they are implemented in CLI.

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15. Have multiple invocation name for a single skill

    Have multiple invocation name for a single skill

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16. Show custom skill on (Echo Show / Spot) home screen

    I would like to have an option to add custom information on the Echo Show or Spot home screen.

    For example, i developed a Webcam Skill and i want my Echo Show/Spot to show it without asking for.

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17. Linking multiple accounts to a single skill

    It would be useful to be able to link multiple accounts to a single skill, e.g. a third-party authenticated music service that allows tracks to be added to a Spotify playlist.

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18. Send PlaybackNearlyFinished for short tracks, or allow responses to other

    I have been asked to post bug reports here, so:

    There is a long-term issue (at least since May 2018) with PlaybackNearlyFinished not firing for shorter tracks.

    It has affected many developers, for example here: https://github.com/alexa/skill-sample-nodejs-audio-player/issues/104
    and here
    https://forums.developer.amazon.com/questions/178909/about-alexa-audio-error-on-skills.html

    From my testing, sometimes it triggers on tracks around 15 seconds, sometimes it doesn't even trigger on tracks 30 seconds long.

    The problem is that the only AudioPlayerEvent you can respond to with an ENQUEUE event is PlaybackNearlyFinished.

    If this "short track bug" cannot be fixed, then at least if developers were allowed to ENQUEUE in response to other events (eg: playbackFinished) then at least we could put some extra logic in there and keep the playlist going.

    Thanks for voting on this!

    I have been asked to post bug reports here, so:

    There is a long-term issue (at least since May 2018) with PlaybackNearlyFinished not firing for shorter tracks.

    It has affected many developers, for example here: https://github.com/alexa/skill-sample-nodejs-audio-player/issues/104
    and here
    https://forums.developer.amazon.com/questions/178909/about-alexa-audio-error-on-skills.html

    From my testing, sometimes it triggers on tracks around 15 seconds, sometimes it doesn't even trigger on tracks 30 seconds long.

    The problem is that the only AudioPlayerEvent you can respond to with an ENQUEUE event is PlaybackNearlyFinished.

    If this "short track bug" cannot be fixed, then at least if developers were allowed to ENQUEUE in response to other events (eg:… more

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19. Allow developers to choose just-in-time permissions

    Today, there are two ways that a user may be asked to grant permissions to a skill: At the time they enable the skill, and when the skill returns a Permission card with its response. For a developer of a skill that uses permissions, the second of these approaches is optional, and entirely controlled by the skill. The first is mandatory, and completely out of our control.

    As a developer, I would like the ability to configure whether any individual permission is prompted for upon skill enablement (and concordantly, whether a permission upsell is triggered when voice enablement is used).

    Rationale:
    Just because my skill uses permissions does not mean that EVERY user of my skill needs to grant me those permissions. It is reasonable to assume that a skill can contain both permission-gated and permission-free use cases concurrently. Requiring all users to hear about permissions up front, before they need them, has several undesirable effects:

    1. Users grant me permission I don't need to have yet, which frankly runs contrary to Amazon's security policies, and which makes me liable in a way I don't want to be.
    2. I am robbed of the opportunity to explain the permissions I'm requesting before the user makes a choice, thereby forcing them into an uninformed decision.
    3. It drives away users. It has long been known in the mobile world that asking users to agree to permissions at install time causes many users to just drop entirely, even if their use cases would've been covered outside of the permissions in question.

    My own skills provide two perfect examples of this:

    Astrobot is a skill about providing space launch information. For the most part, it's an information querying skill. You can open a session, ask questions, and be done. But it also provides the option to subscribe to push notifications. A very small fraction of users choose to do this, and it was added on later to the skill which had been working just fine without the feature. But now every single user who enables astrobot is going to be asked for push notifications, regardless of the fact that the vast majority of them have no reason to use it.

    Even more frustrating for the user would be how InsultiBot's permissions work. InsultiBot is currently undergoing a massive update to add ISP. As part of that, new "premium" features have been added, and these features require permissions to be granted, where none were requested before. So it is extremely likely that some portion of my users will now enable the skill and grant me permissions, only to find out that not only were the permissions not absolutely required, but that the permissions cannot even be relevant unless they spend money on my skill.

    In both of these cases, I would absolutely choose to manage permissions only through the Permission cards.

    Today, there are two ways that a user may be asked to grant permissions to a skill: At the time they enable the skill, and when the skill returns a Permission card with its response. For a developer of a skill that uses permissions, the second of these approaches is optional, and entirely controlled by the skill. The first is mandatory, and completely out of our control.

    As a developer, I would like the ability to configure whether any individual permission is prompted for upon skill enablement (and concordantly, whether a permission upsell is triggered when voice enablement is used).

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20. Provide HTML like styling to the card

    It would be a good if we can style our card in CSS way. Default search implementation like Yelp is doing it internally. We should be allowed that too. We should be allowed to design our image and content the way we want. we should be freely use margin, padding, color, font and other style too.

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